I like violence in movies and televison

[Jayson1]

Considering the massive success of extremely violent movies and TV shows, you are certainly not alone.

Kor

I agree but it is kind of interesting how people don't want to admit it maybe even to themselves and we choose more nice sounding words instead like action or adventure etc. The amount of stuff we lie to even ourselves about is something I have always found interesting and frustrating about people. One of the reasons I never know if I can even trust myself with my views or if everything I believe is just a lie to cover what are actual basic and primitive programing that comes with being a human being.

Jason

 

[Armus]

Are you capable of rebutting someone with words instead of memes? Apparently not.

Thank you. You've just summed up facebook and millennial cliches in two sentences.

 

[Armus]

For me, violence that crosses the line is not blood and guts per se. Depictions of sadism with callous disregard for life offends me. It is unhealthy to saturate the mind with that crap.

 

[Owain Taggart]

What is also interesting though is when you see violence that is super intense but not as graphic as you think it is. Like the scene in "Pulp FIction" when the gimp is killed by the sword. You never see it happen. You only think you saw it with how it was filmed. Or in "Reservoir Dogs" when the camera pans away before you see Madsen cut the ear off the cop.

That's the thing though. While In the past, a lot of it was implied and was never directly shown, with a lot of it being clever cuts and reaction shots. Over decades, however, they've become bolder in not only showing these things on screen, but with the amount of time spent on them. One has to wonder if it's really necessary when just implying is just as effective, perhaps moreso.

Personally, I find violence intellectually unstimulating and incredibly boring after having seen enough examples.

Same here. It's not that I've become desensitized to it either, as I still have adverse reactions to it, but rather that I know for a fact that I'm not getting much out of it. There are times where I feel it might actually put me to sleep. And I thought I was the only one... Thanks for posting

 

[BillJ]

Are you capable of rebutting someone with words instead of memes? Apparently not.

That meme was all the response your post earned.

 

[TribbleFeeder]

I can see what JirinPanthosa is saying. I wouldn’t say watching Full House is as bad as watching blood and violence, but it can have a negative effect on you, especially as a kid.

I feel this way about romantic comedies or romance movies. They make men seem so perfect. The female character is the center of his world, he can’t live without her, he loves her only for her personality, etc. That’s just not reality at all. Before I really learned about how men are wired, I really thought that was all true. It severely distorted how I looked at relationships.

For instance, every time my boyfriend looked at another woman or was caught watching porn, he didn’t fit the rom-com mold anymore. Suddenly I was thinking “maybe he’s not the right guy” or “maybe he’s the beginning of the movie guy”. This might sound super silly, but it warped my perception of men. It didn’t help that I didn’t have any brothers, so I was really lost when it came to how men’s minds worked. My first real experiences with guys were super distorted by this. I just assumed they were supposed to be these perfect creatures that sat around and thought about the one all the time.

I think there’s a lot of ways that “positive” media can be harmful, inadvertently.

 

[Orac]

People who expose themselves to violent images in video games and movies are less likely to have nightmares in their sleep apparently the human brain has a need for violent images so if you avoid them in your conscious state your unconscious mind will generate them for you anyway. This is the opposite of what I was told as a child i.e. that I wasn't allowed to watch scary movies as they would give me bad dreams. The reality is the opposite i.e. watching scary movies prevents you from having scary dreams. Of course this only applies to healthy human minds not psychos, know what I'm sayin?

 

[Spot261]

People who expose themselves to violent images in video games and movies are less likely to have nightmares in their sleep apparently the human brain has a need for violent images so if you avoid them in your conscious state your unconscious mind will generate them for you anyway. This is the opposite of what I was told as a child i.e. that I wasn't allowed to watch scary movies as they would give me bad dreams. The reality is the opposite i.e. watching scary movies prevents you from having scary dreams. Of course this only applies to healthy human minds not psychos, know what I'm sayin?

Got a link for that?

 

[Orac]

@Spot261 A quick search of the same site you linked to provided me this --> link

If I weren't so lazy I could provide a plethora of links for you to debunk.

However I sense you are are convinced I am wrong so I will cede that you are right and I am not.

Happy new year!

 

[Spot261]

@Spot261 A quick search of the same site you linked to provided me this --> link

If I weren't so lazy I could provide a plethora of links for you to debunk.

However I sense you are are convinced I am wrong so I will cede that you are right and I am not.

Happy new year!

Actually I was just curious, but you do realise the study you just linked doesn't actually support your statement?

 

[Orac]

@Spot261 yes I am that's why I ceded the argument to you, I really don't care enough to spend any more of my time finding evidence to support it.

My statement was extrapolated from information gathered watching tv quiz shows not academic research.

In the words of Carl Sagan "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"
I have none, but I am slightly pleased someone considered my claim extraordinary.

 

[Spot261]

@Spot261 yes I am that's why I ceded the argument to you, I really don't care enough to spend any more of my time finding evidence to support it.

My statement was extrapolated from information gathered watching tv quiz shows not academic research.

In the words of Carl Sagan "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"
I have none, but I am slightly pleased someone considered my claim extraordinary.

Hey, don't knock TV quiz shows, I've learnt loads from QI

 

[Riker'sMailbox]

This thread covers a lot. I do not ascribe to the notion that the casual watching of any genre can really impact a person that is in good mental health. I don't think watching violence or Hallmark movies or Full House will cause an otherwise typically developing person to not function as an adult.

I do not enjoy watching violent films, though I love psychological thrillers, which other may consider more frightening than slasher flicks.

I don't enjoy watching Hallmark films because if you have seen one, you have seen them all.

I loved Full House as a child and the only thing it impressed upon me was that DJ's acid washed jeans were the coolest thing my 11 year old ass had ever seen.

Sex is fun to watch, but more for laughing at. Maybe because I have *ahem* a lot of experience with a lot of dudes, I get a kick out of how fake it is. Unless it is female directed porn...their films are totally made for women in a way that is hot, not funny.

There is a lot of overthinking in this thread, which I know is par for the course on the internet.